Christmas Eve

We started out Christmas Eve by sleeping in! Okay, sleeping in to me is anytime past 8:00 AM. It was great! We all got ready and headed over my Mom's House.

At my mom's we made Cookies, had a really yummy dinner, and played lots of games on my sister's Wii. Here is Ben dunking Garett. He wasn't so excited about being way up there
After dinner we decorated cookies and then went downstairs to do the traditional acting out of the Nativity. My mom went all out this year and made costumes for all the Grandkids to participate. They were all sooo excited to dress up, but the only ones that really wanted to cooperate were Spencer, Sydney, and of course my ever happy Garett.
Abbie was Mary and wouldn't even come out, but
here are Spencer (Joseph), Garett (baby Jesus), and Elise (a Shepherd).
Spencer, and Sydney (the Wiseman).
Garett was such a great Baby Jesus. Happy and cooing the whole time!

Grace was supposed to be the Angel, but she sure wasn't acting like one!

After the Nativity flopped we sang a bunch of Christmas Carols with my mom's completely out of tune piano. Luckily the singing sounded good still! Then it was time for our pajamas! Here is Grace and Garett in their new warm jammies!

Heather's kids all ready for bed.

We then headed home to put our kids to bed. Grace of course had to lay out the stockings first and leave a cookie and glass of milk out for Santa. She went right to sleep after Ben read her How the Grinch Stole Christmas. We were all so excited for Santa to come!

Cousins

We were lucky enough to spend a lot of time with our families over the past week. It has been so fun to play with them and meet all the new babies! (we've had 6 including Garett born and still have 1 more on the way!)

Here is Garett with Brieya and Caleb. This is the difference 6 weeks make. Garett is 6 weeks older than Brieya (check out her head full of hair!) and Brieya is 6 weeks older than Caleb.

This is Garett and my sister's twins Conner and Catelyn. They are one month older than Garett. Yes, I know, Garett's a big kid.

More Snow!

Ben shoveled a lot of snow last week. We were hit with a big storm on Monday, but luckily the storm on Christmas didn't bring us much in Utah County.

I had to take a picture of the snow on the side of the driveway. It's almost as tall as Grace.

Grace thought she should help too so she pulled out her shovel and pail.
Here's Ben working those back muscles. He was pretty sore from shoveling so much, but I'm grateful that he did! Getting stuck in our own driveway doesn't sound very fun.

Merry Christmas!

I just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! It has been a wonderful season and we are so grateful for this day to remember our Saviors birth! What a joyous day and life he gave for us and I love him!

Here are some pictures I took of the kids on Sunday in their Christmas Outfits. I wish I had Michelle here with her camera, mine just isn't as good.

Gingerbread Houses

We invited the Lynes and Ross's over for FHE on the 15th and did Gingerbread Houses. We had a fun time and it was great to see what everyone created with their kits.

Here is our masterpiece..... notice the frosting blobs? Ben just couldn't let the extra frosting go to waste! Grace then snacked on the hardened disgusting frosting for the next 2 days, so we threw our house away.
Here's the Gingerbread Neighborhood.
The Harper Home, The Ross Mansion, and the Lynes Shack. :) Just Kidding! Your house looked great!

It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas!

Grace has been waiting and waiting for the snow to come and when it finally did we were at G & G Harper's house. Luckily we brought her snow clothes and she was so excited to play! But first she had to try her hat on Grandpa.

"Wait a second...this is really cold!!!!!"
"Where are my gloves?????"
"This is so much fun!"
"I LOVE the SNOW!"
"Until my cousins come and throw it at me and my hands get too cold, then I come in crying!"




I'm a bad mom and thought of everything she would need except gloves! All we have are the little fabric ones so I need to get her some snow ones.

3 Months Old!

My Baby is 3 months Old! He is such a great baby always smiling and cooing at me. He has grown so much, and.......he's sleeping through the night! Hooray! I've had almost 2 weeks of uninterupted sleep at night! Whohoo!!! I usually feed him between 10 & 11 and then he'll sleep until I wake him up between 7:30 and 8. It is fabulous!!!!

Thanks for being such a wonderful baby Garett, you have made having a new baby so wonderful and I have enjoyed every minute of you! I Love You!